Chapter 259: Expose the track
The next day, September 21, Xia Yangjun brought Mo Jian and two Mo family disciples to Baiyi in a chariot. Li He, who learned the news, took Fang Han and Hai Fu and others out of the city to greet him.
Perhaps it was because he was in a good mood after learning that Li He had recovered Bai Yi, and when Xia Yangjun saw Li He, he was even in the mood to complain about the bumps on the way.
No wonder, after all, Xihe County and Shangjun area are basically covered with high plateau terrain, with forests and gullies. It is estimated that chariots are not as fast as hiking on this land.
This is also the reason why Li He was anxious to let Shaoliang Qibing work as a crossbow cavalry.
After chatting for a few words, Li He brought Xia Yang Jun and Mo Jian into the city, and mentioned the results of the attack on Baiyi last night to Xia Yang Jun.
It has to be said that the results of the battle last night were quite good. The number of Wei Wuzhan and Shaoliang Qishu killed no less than that in Chiyi a few days ago. More than two or three thousand Lin Hu soldiers and three or four thousand Hu slaves were killed, while their own losses were minimal. Not to mention Shao Liang Qishu, even the casualties of Wei Wuzhan were smaller than the previous one, and only a dozen people were killed. Obviously, this time the Wei Wuzhan had already gained experience, and he used shields to protect the door from being shot out of the deadly position by Lin Hu soldiers with bows and arrows.
"... The Hu general stationed in this city was a warrior named Fugu. He was quite brave and refused to surrender. He was finally killed by the martial arts soldiers. Once this person died, the remaining Hu people surrendered one after another..."
When entering the city, Li He briefly told Xia Yangjun about the rough process of the battle last night.
At this time, the work on corpses cleaning in the city has come to an end, but there are still many traces of blood on the road, and sometimes some local people in Baiyi can be seen.
It is similar to Chiyi. After Baiyi was captured by the Hu people, the local people in the city who had no time to escape were scattered, the food was stolen, and the women were also stolen, while the men who resisted were basically killed. Originally, Baiyi was said to have more than a thousand households, but now only one-tenth of the entire family survived, and basically only women and children were left.
Even though Xia Yangjun had seen something similar in Chiyi, after learning about Baiyi's experience, he still couldn't help but curse indignantly: "A bunch of beasts!"
If it weren't for Mo Jian, the Mo family's tycoon, and if it weren't for Xia Yang, he would have known that Li He wanted to force some Lin Hu to surrender to Shaoliang, he might have the intention to kill Lin Hu prisoners in the city.
It was not only him who had this idea. Wei general Fang Han also interrupted and said, "According to me, we shouldn't have kept the lives of these miscellaneous Hus. Instead of keeping these Hus, we have to send people to guard them, so we should kill them all... The woman and the child were merged into the Hai tribe, and Hu Nu sent him to Di Yang."
Hu Nu, a Hai tribe who understands the Central Plains language, translated Fang Han's words in a low voice to Hai Fu and the two tribe warriors who followed him. It has to be said that Hai Fu and the two Hai tribe warriors were a little moved, but they did not dare to say anything.
Mo Jian and two Mo family disciples naturally heard Fang Han's words. Logically speaking, Mo family disciples would resist the act of killing prisoners very much, but because they have seen the atrocities of the Hu people with their own eyes more than once so far, even Mo Jian, the giant, was a little shaken. After a long time of silence, hesitated to express his opinion: "Killing prisoners is not good. Although Hu people do many evil deeds, I should not use violence to control violence, otherwise what is the difference between it and Hu people?"
In the end, Mo Jian insisted on treating Lin Hu with a gentle policy.
Of course, the policy of carefreeness mentioned here refers to the strategy of "turning Hu into Xia" advocated by Li He, that is, let the surrendered Hu people slowly accept their Central Plains culture. As for the Hu people who are unwilling to surrender, let alone Liang Mo, even Song Mo would not be pedantic and determined to save their lives.
Then, the group came to Baiyi's east city wall and stood on the city wall and looked towards the east direction of Lindi.
Lindi is in the southeast of Baiyi, with the two places being about forty or fifty miles apart, with forests and gullies in the middle. Therefore, even if you stand on the walls of Baiyi, it is difficult to see the Lindi Fortress, and you can only barely see the big river to the east.
Li He said to Xia Yangjun: "This morning, General Fang had sent a thousand generals Zuo Song to lead a thousand military soldiers to garrison the river bank, and destroy the bridges on the river if necessary..."
Xia Yangjun nodded and said, "After receiving the news you sent, Long Jia had already ordered Cao Yi to lead 3,000 Wei troops to station the Sanchuan River in the north of Xi County... But isn't this exposed? I thought you would use the same trick to take down the Lindi city block."
"I've thought about it, but..."
Li He shook his head slightly.
Speaking of Lindi fortress, it has to be said that the Zhao people did find a very good place to build the city gate. According to the map given to him by Xia Yangjun, the Lindi city gate in Zhao State was built in a "博"-shaped recess in the Dahe River, facing Shangjun of Wei State, surrounded by water on three sides. Only one road behind it is connected to Lishi, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack. No wonder the Zhao people chose to build the city gate here as a frontier on the border.
Unfortunately, the city was blocked in front of the Hu people. According to Lin Hu, who was captured in Baiyi, their cavalry bypassed the river chasm on the front of Lindi and crossed the river from other sections, ran to the back of Lindi Fortress, cut off the passage between Lindi and Lishi, and then sent a large number of Hu slaves to launch an attack from behind Lindi Fortress.
In this way, Lindi Fortress became an isolated city. The local Zhao army was defending for dozens of days, but it was inevitable that Lin Hu and Hu Nu would break through the fortress. In the end, they had to choose to break through, escape from the south gate of the fortress, crossed the Sanchuan River, and retreated to Lishi in the east.
In short, if you face the threat from Shangjun of Wei, Lindi is a fortress that is easy to defend and difficult to attack. The reason why it fell was because the Linhu cavalry controlled its rear, but if it was used to deal with the threat from Zhaoxihe County, Lindi, which is surrounded by water on the west, north and south, it would be purely a fortress that would cut off one's own way of life.
Therefore, Li He thought for a long time and decided not to take Lin Di for the time being, so as not to immediately fall into a war of attrition with Zhao Di Lin Hu.
When the Yuanli army arrives, it will not be too late to attack in full swing.
As for whether the Wei Wushang, the branch of Zuo Song who was stationed on the river bank would arouse Lin Dilin Hu's suspicion, Li He didn't care much about it. After all, they had cut off Zhao Dilin Hu's retreat. Even if Chiyi was exposed and Baiyi had been recovered by his coalition forces one after another, what could Lin Dilin Hu do? Could it be that they could still ride horses across the river?
It's simply impossible!
As long as his coalition forces guard the river and prevent Lin Hu from building a bridge on the other side, Lin Di Lin Hu would have to be trapped in the local area.
"However, it's better to contact Zhao Jun over there... How much does Xia Yang Jun know about Zhao Jun in Lishi?"
"This..." Xia Yangjun smiled bitterly in embarrassment.
He was previously the garrison of Hexi County, not the garrison of Xihe County. How could he know who Zhao State sent to station in Lindi? Who is Doctor Lishi?
When Li He saw his expression, he understood and nodded and said, "In this way, please write a letter by Mr. Xia Yang. I will send a surprise soldier to Lishi and hand it over to the local general Zhao."
"Okay." Xia Yangjun nodded.
Without further ado, Xia Yang Jun immediately wrote a letter that day.
Then Li He called out two hundred surprise soldiers and general Wang Zeng, handed Xia Yangjun's letter to the latter, and instructed: "About 60 miles east of Lindi, there is a city of Zhao State, Li Shi, which may be attacked by Lin Hu. You lead 200 surprise soldiers to Li Shi and handed Xia Yangjun's letter to the local Zhao general... If the other party intends to attack Lin Hu together, bring back the letter."
"Abide by the order!"
Two hundred people held Wang Zeng away with fists.
A few days later, the three places in Chiyi, Baiyi and Lindi were calm. The Liang and Wei coalition forces were busy consolidating the defense of the river bank, and Lindi had not yet found something wrong.
Until September 24, a Linhu cavalry accidentally approached the bridge on the river bank and discovered Zuo Song Army stationed on the other side of the bridge.
"Xia Army?"
The leader of the Lin Hu Warrior was stunned: "How could there be a Xia people's army here?"
The Lin Hu cavalry under his command were also confused.
At this time, the military soldiers under the command of Zuo Song, a general of Wei Wushu, also discovered the Lin Hu cavalry standing across the river and looked out, and hurriedly reported to Zuo Song.
Zuo Song did not dare to neglect, and left and walked out of the straw shed they had temporarily built, looking at the Linhu Cavalry on the other side of the river.
"Oh, it's exposed..."
Zuo Song touched his chin full of stubbornness and said with a smile: "I'll just say that Lin Hu from Lindi can't send people here..."
Someone asked, "Qianjiang, what should I do now? Do I want to destroy this bridge?"
Zuo Song thought for a while and said, "Lin Hu and the others can't rush to this point... Send someone to report to Baiyi first."
"Yes!" He hugged his fists from left to right and immediately turned towards Baiyi.
Zuo Song led hundreds of Wei Wushang guarding the bridge.
Lin Hu on the other side was just a team of more than twenty people. He didn't dare to assault Zuo Song Army and shot two pieces from afar. However, Wei Wuzhang's armor was strong and mainly protected his face. The arrows shot by the Hu people were only worthy of tickling them.
Seeing that the attack had no effect, the Lin Huqi soldier immediately turned back to Lindi.
Zuo Song knew as soon as he guessed, the other party must have reported the matter.
Just as he was hesitating whether to destroy the bridge immediately, the soldiers of the Youhai tribe came on a horse carrying a young Liang soldier. The young Liang soldier held the Wei army's military talisman and shouted loudly: "Doctor Ziliang has an order to destroy the bridge immediately."
That Li He is very decisive!
After hearing this, Zuo Song did not hesitate any more and immediately ordered: "Destroy the bridge!"
With a command, the Wei Wushang immediately set fire to the bridge.
At the same time, the team of Lin Hu had already rode to Lindi and entered the fortress. They met the local leader of Lin Hu, who was mentioned by Hai Fu, the youngest son of Pilo, the old leader of the Yizhan tribe.
"Summer army?"
After learning about the report from the Lin Hu cavalry, Pilou was surprised.
You should know that bridge was the key road for them to travel between Baiyi and Lindi. He had previously instructed his warriors to send soldiers to patrol every day, so how could it be occupied by the Xia army?
"etc……"
Pilo vaguely felt that something was wrong.
Immediately, he led hundreds of Linhu cavalry to the river bank, but saw a burning bridge.
Turning to look at the other side of the river, there was indeed a Xia army on the other side. Judging from the flags and armor, it should be the army of Wei.
"How could it be?"
Pilo could hardly believe his eyes.
Where did this Wei army emerge?
Erqi from Chiyi and Baiyi's rune bones, what are they doing?
Or...
Chapter completed!